Sad-iron handle.



No. 783,682. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. w. COLE.

SAD IRON HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED 0( JT.12,1903.

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Application iilerl October 12, 1908. Serial No. 176,662.

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.Be it lcnown that l, WILLIAM Conn, acitizcn ol the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of lVyandotte and rltate 01f Kansas, have invented new and useful limp-ovements' in Sad-iron Handles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sad-iron handles and the means that I employ to secure the handle to the iron while in use.

My invention is illustrated in the aecom panying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a sad-iron in cle 'ation with parts in section. Fig. 2 illustrates a cross-section of Fig. 1, taken centrally across the iron, the handle-plate and the handle being removed, disclosing a cross-bar over a depression formed in the body of the sad-iron. l ig. 3 is a cross-section of the handle-plate, talceu on line A A. of Fig. '1, disclosing two upwardly-extcnding ears and the tilting lever in cross-section pivotally mounted between the ears by means of a cross'piu.

With the above illustrations and description ll. will now proceed to more fully describe my invention by referring to corresponding numerals on the drawings and the specification, in which- 1 designates the body of a sad-iron, and 2 designates the handle oi. the same. in the top of the sad iron is a concave depression 3. lilorizontally and crosswise of the depression and the iron is a cross-bar t. A detachable handleqgdate 5, which has a level lower face (i, is adapted to smoothly engage the top of the iron land is provided with a longitudinal opening 7. Integral with the under side of said handle-plate is a depending lug 8, which crosses the longitudinal opening 7, as shown in'llig. 1. Said lug is at an angle o'l? about forty-live degrees with the lower liaee o't' the handle-plate and is tttlitpliOtl to engage the cross-bar 4, already described, as shown in Fig. l;

Integral with the handle-plate and extending from the upper side thereof, one on each side of the longitudinal opening 7, is a pair oi upwardly-extending ears 9. Said ears are provided with opposite corresponding perforations. Mounted between said ears 9 and pivotally secured thereto is a spring-actuated rocking lever or dog 11. t'laid lever is provided with a depending lug or catch 19. and is adapted to engage and be disengaged from the cross-bruat.

Iltigidly secured over the rear end of the iron and between the handle-plate and the handle thereof a spring 13 of su'llicient tension to hold the spririg-actuated rocking lever, as shown. Near the front portion oi the handle is a vertical rod 1%, provided with a handle 15. tlaid rod is mounted on the handle 2, through a 'ertical opening 10, centrally ol? the handle, and is :ulapted to work loosely through said opening, the lower end thereof passingdown and engagiiigthe pringactuated rocking lever ll in a concave seat 17 l have further provided a cross-pin 18 "through the lower end of said vertical rod to preventdisengagcmentfrom the handle. The handle is secured to the handle-plate by means of screws 19, as slmwn.

The operation oi attachment and detachuncut ol the handle to the sad-iron is as follows: \Vhen the handle is to be attached to the sad-iron, it is grasped by the hand of the user. The thumb is placed on the head 15 of the rod lsh and is forced down, which will raise the depending lug '12 above the lower surface of tile handle-plate. 'llhen the lug 8 inserted under the cross-bar l, and the thumb is relaxed from the head 150? the vertical rod 14, when the spring l3 will force the lever 11, with the lug lit, baelc to the position shown, when the handle is secured to the sad-iron. The detachment of the handle-plate from the sad-iron is produced b, Y a reversal oi? the above operation.

Having now fully described my invention, what it claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is

In a handle for sad-irons oi the character described, the combination of a plate adapted to engage the top of a sad-iron, an elongated opening in the plate, ears integral with the plate on each sidcoli' the opening, a depending lug integral with the plate extending across the opening and adapted to en age a cross-bar in the topot' a sad-iron, a tiltil lever pivoted to said ears and adapted to engage said crossbar through the elongated opening, a handle l inner end thereof adapted to engage said tiltniounted on the handle-plate, a vertical opening lever, substantially as described. IO ing in the handle, a vertical rod loosely sup- In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in ported in said opening, the lower end thereof the presence of two witnesses.

adapted to engage the tilting lever, a cross- WILLIAM COLE.

pin and a knob carried by the vertical rod, Witnesses:

and a resilient spring supported between one GEO. H. ROBERTS,

end of the handle and the handleplate, the M. N. HIGDON. 

